Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Ballinvallig

Fairy forts in Limerick wear that name because people stopped believing they were human, not because fairies admitted it. In Ballinvallig a round embanked enclosure stood about thirty metres wide in level pasture, large enough for a household, a herd, or a small defiant community. It has since been levelled until the pasture gives back no ridge, gate, shadow or broken stone. What remains is a absence with a shape, a room the land forgot but never stopped remembering.